" A sound escaped her like the rising moan of a gale up a flue; then she sat down against trembling that seized her and sent ripples along the iridescent sequins.

an imagination so stirred that, if it slept at all, it dreamed and moaned in its sleep, as now; a conscience wounded and refusing to heal.

The moaning of the horses maddened me, and I sent a bullet through the head of my own poor beast, which was writhing horribly.

" The Gospeler hurriedly related the material points of FLORA'S history to his recovered friend, who moaned with all the more cheerful parts, and seemed to think that the serious ones might be worked-up in comic miss-spelling for his paper.

A year later the pair again met to take farewell, on the hill of Annesleyan incident he has commemorated in two short stanzas, that have the sound of a wind moaning over a moor.

It started from some distance off, and came towards us, nearer and nearer, like some one walking along and moaning to himself.

And in my dream methought that I wept and made great moan for my fowls, and for the destruction which the hawk had made; and my maids came about me to comfort me.

The sea moaned from the lashing it had receiveda faint undertone, however, that became suddenly drowned by loud and harsh clangor, the hammering on metal somewhere below.

Round it squatted a score of women, with plaids drawn tight over their heads, who rocked and moaned like a flight of witches, and twothree men were on their knees at the edge of the ashes.

"All for nothing!" and fell to moaning through her laced fingers.

Sighs siffled through the bracken and the heather, and the roar of the distant sea died away in moaning at the bar.

We'll hear nae more lilting at our ewe-milking, Women and bairns are heartless and wae; Sighing and moaning on ilka green loaning, The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.

Yet it to be as she did miss me, even in her sleep; for it to seem to me that she put out her arms in the darkness, and she made a little moaning in her slumber.

A pleasant breeze came sweeping lazily over the lake, and went sighing and moaning among the old forest trees.

I might perhaps have had love which I did not want but not that which I did want,which was not a thing to make any unmanly moan about, but in the ordinary course of events.

Meantime the wind was constantly moaning around it; and in the moaning was a sound of human sighs and tears.

She began to sob and moan under her breath, careless even of a possible passerby.

When rueful moans along the forest swell Protracted, and the twilight storm foretel, And, headlong from the cliffs, a deafening load Tumbles,and wildering thunder slips abroad; When on the summits Darkness comes and goes, Hiding their fiery clouds, their rocks, and snows; And the fierce torrent, from the lustre broad, Starts, like a horse beside the flashing road

As if there came such moaning from the flood As is heard often after stormy nights.

Thus passed the careless, happy years for Countess and poet until, in 1803, Alfieri followed the "Bonnie Prince" behind the veil, and left a desolate Louise to moan amid her tears, "There is no more happiness for me.

I stumbled and slipped along the hill-side, my breath labouring, and a moaning at my lips from sheer agony and weakness.

"The chaplet on thy brow an' thee weeping!fairest flower of all!" "I have wished that I was dead;" the words came in a little moan between sobs.

Roseen fairly danced about, imitating Pat's moanings to the best of her ability.

The congregation would begin clapping their hands while this prayer was in progress and general moanings with one or both of the preachers praying at the same time why this brother or sister is taken in to the flock to sin no more.

The wind moaned above him in the spruce tops.